Local council election in St. Pölten 1970

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City council election 1970
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57.0%
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34.8%
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6.2%
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1965

1970


The 1970 municipal council election took place on April 5, 1970 and was the fifth municipal council election in St. Pölten after the end of the war. The Socialist Party of Austria won strongly, was again able to unite the most votes and defend the absolute majority .

Starting position

In the election of April 4, 1965 , the SPÖ was able to unite the most votes and win back an absolute majority . While the ÖVP was able to record slight gains, the KPÖ and the FPÖ reached lost, the latter could no longer place any council mandates.

Mayor Rudolf Singer came under increasing criticism in the following years, especially from his own ranks. He was punished by the SPÖ in 1968 with a five-year ban on working, but remained mayor . Thereupon a new district chairman was elected in January 1969 and a new city party chairman in February 1969, Hans Schickelgruber just won against Franz Pichler .

Campaigning parties and election process

In the elections, the three parties represented in the municipal council and, as in the previous elections, the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) ran. The Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) ran with Hans Schickelgruber as the top candidate, the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) under Anton Korner and the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) under Anton Eder.

Election result

In the election of April 5, 1970, the SPÖ was again able to unite the most votes and defend the absolute majority with strong profits . While the ÖVP lost votes slightly and the KPÖ lost a lot of votes, the FPÖ recorded slight gains, but they did not make it into the local council.

Official final result of the municipal council election in 1970
Results 1970 Results 1965 Differences
be right % Mand. be right % Mand. be right % Mand.
Eligible voters 31,028 29,852 + 1,176
Votes cast 27,353 88.2% 27,076 90.7% + 277 - 2.5%
invalid votes 565 2.0% 990 3.7% - 425 - 1.7%
valid votes 26,788 97.9% 26,086 96.3% + 702 + 1.6%
Political party
SPÖ 15,269 57.0% 25th 13,823 53.0% 23 + 1,446 + 4.0% + 2
ÖVP 9,326 34.8% 15th 9,393 36.0% 15th - 67 - 1.2% ± 0
KPÖ 1,664 6.2% 2 2,447 9.4% 4th - 783 - 3.2% - 2nd
FPÖ 529 2.0% 0 423 1.6% 0 + 106 + 0.4% ± 0
total 26,788 100.0% 42 26,086 100.0% 42 + 702 ± 0 ± 0

Effects

At the constituent meeting of the municipal council on April 27, 1970, Schickelgruber was elected mayor with 40 votes , while Oswald Hameder (SPÖ) and Anton Korner (ÖVP) became vice-mayors.

literature

  • Siegfried Nasko , Willibald Rosner (ed.): St. Pölten in the 20th century. History of a city. Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-7017-3155-8 .
  • Siegfried Nasko: Up out of dull dreams. Labor movement and social democracy in the St. Pölten area (= our St. Pölten district. No. 7, ZDB -ID 2292151-5 ). With a biographical part by Wilhelm Stiowicek. SPÖ district organization, Vienna et al. 1986, pp. 380–384.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Pölten: New SP district chairman . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 28, 1969, p. 07 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ↑ Municipal council elections 1950-2001 on st-poelten.gv.at